Hip-Hop in Album Draft
Hip-Hop runs from the late 70s to now and counts as up-tempo, so it fills the Opener. It has more songs big enough to lead or close an album than any genre except pop and rock.
40Hip-Hop songs you can draft
1970s–2020s6 decades covered
10big enough for Lead Single
12small enough for the Deep Cut
Which slots Hip-Hop fills
- The Opener (track 1): it counts as up-tempo.
- Lead Single (track 3) and The Closer (track 12) want your biggest songs, whatever the genre. 10 Hip-Hop songs qualify.
- Deep Cut (track 9) wants your smallest song. 12 Hip-Hop songs qualify.
Albums score higher when they use fewer genres and more decades, so Hip-Hop works best as one of two or three genres spread across several eras. How scoring works.
The biggest Hip-Hop songs by decade
1970s
- Rapper's Delight · The Sugarhill Gang, 1979
1980s
- The Message · Grandmaster Flash, 1982
- Fight the Power · Public Enemy, 1989
- Walk This Way · Run-DMC, 1986
- Push It · Salt-N-Pepa, 1987
- (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right · Beastie Boys, 1986
1990s
- Juicy · The Notorious B.I.G., 1994
- California Love · 2Pac, 1995
- Nuthin' but a "G" Thang · Dr. Dre, 1992
- Dear Mama · 2Pac, 1995
- C.R.E.A.M. · Wu-Tang Clan, 1994
2000s
- Lose Yourself · Eminem, 2002
- Hey Ya! · OutKast, 2003
- Ms. Jackson · OutKast, 2000
- Stan · Eminem, 2000
- Gold Digger · Kanye West, 2005
2010s
- Old Town Road · Lil Nas X, 2019
- HUMBLE. · Kendrick Lamar, 2017
- Alright · Kendrick Lamar, 2015
- Runaway · Kanye West, 2010
- This Is America · Childish Gambino, 2018
2020s
- Not Like Us · Kendrick Lamar, 2024
- Starlight · Dave, 2022
- Doja · Central Cee, 2022
- First Person Shooter · Drake, 2023
- Rich Flex · Drake, 2022
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